Review of Foundry 28mm Seven Years War Hussars and ACW Zouaves Foundry Ltd., Huberts Lane, off Doyle Road, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, GY1 1RG, Channel Islands, GB, or The Foundry Ltd, 1549 Marview Drive, Westlake, Ohio, 44145

Foundry keep astounding us by their super modeling and startling versimilitude. I have 5 packs for review. I will list them, comment on the contents and draw some of them, not to scale. I will begin with the Hussars in Mirliton. These are Prussians that Von Zeiten would have been proud to lead.

Command Pack Contains an officer, trumpeter playing away, a guidon bearer, with a good big staff (supply your own fly), and an NCO.

Troopers Pack Contains four troopers cast so as to be possible to place the torso on the legs with some individual discretion, for variety. A colpack is also cast to sprue on all these hussars. Personally I prefer the colpack to be cast on, if one is going to have them. A separate colpack is just another bit to stick on and as they were regulation wear all had to be worn the same way anyway. The faces of the troopers are all different and the angles at which they flourish their sabres are all different. These two packs together make quite a good basic unit, tho' another pack of troopers would make a tremendous scouting presence for a Prussian 7YW army

Command and Troopers Pack Contains 6 assorted dismounted Hussars plus one dead horse, one wounded and one dead hussar. The officer figure is waving his sabre and has his colpack cast on. The five troopers, carbines ready, have separate colpacks, one has a bare head. I have put the wounded hussar on a base with the dead reclining horse and one of two separate mirlitons included in the pack. The other mirliton is on the base with the bareheaded dead hussar. The casualty leans up on his right elbow clutching his chest with his left hand. The D.D. (Discharge Dead) is spread eagled on his back, his right arm lying across his slung carbine and his sabre and sabretache at his left side. His left arm thrown up upper left. You have many uniform colors to choose from for your hussars c.f. Funken's "Lace Wars" volumes.

Now for the ACW Zouaves Packs. These figures can be 1870 Franco Prussian War also of course. Both sides in the Civil War created Zouave regiments, in order to copy the French variety which were much admired for their elan and outlandish uniforms. Unfortunately the materials supplied for the uniforms were generally shoddy, in ACW, and didn't last very long.

ACWZ18 assorted zouaves. Advancing. Tasseled Fez, full pack, right shoulder shift. All in baggy trousers, long gaiters, short open jackets, both feet balanced on the toes, right foot passing left - lots of equipment. All have different faces, heads at differing angles, some beards, some shouting, others silent, some youger. A lively lot.

ACWZ67 command figures. These consist of two officers, one on the move, one standing, two drummers, one standing, one advancing playing, two banner bearers. The standing one has a flag staff (provide own fly), one advancing (provide own staff and fly). One sergeant gesturing, with separate rifle at the trail, shouting (as ever). With these two packs combined one gets 12 figures moving and 3 standing command figures. As, I suspect, the command pack is common to all the other Zouave packs available, this is OK. It looks as if ACWZ2 Zouave, tasselled fez, at the ready ("standing slope arms'' I'd describe it) will fit with the standing command figures. Drawings: